Rehearsal for mass expulsion of Palestinian citizens? Israel’s deportation of South Sudanese

Ali Abunimah

electronicintifada.net

Israel has announced it plans to deport thousands of refugees from South Sudan. The reasoning behind the move suggests it could be a rehearsal for the expulsion of Palestinian citizens of Israel if an independent Palestinian state is ever established.

Israel’s Interior Ministry says thousands of people from South Sudan must leave or face deportation.

Spokeswoman Sabine Haddad says since the Southern Sudanese have an independent state, they will no longer be given protected status in Israel. The country gained independence from Sudan in July.

Some 7,000 South Sudanese are believed to be in Israel, part of a larger influx of African migrants who have poured into the country in recent years. Some are refugees, while others are seeking employment.

The report also says that the refugees “will be offered voluntary deportation and around $1,300.”

Ominous sign for Palestinians in Israel

But Israeli leaders have already hinted that they could use the same type of logic to justify removal of Palestinian citizens of Israel if a nominally independent Palestinian state is established on scraps of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

The Palestinian state to be established will not be a solution just for the Palestinians who live in Judea and Samaria [the West Bank]. It is designed to provide a comprehensive national solution – for those living in Judea and Samaria, and the refugees camps, and even for the [Arab] citizens of Israel.

Paying for “voluntary” transfer

Nor is the notion of paying people to leave “voluntarily” a new one. Israeli far-right leaders have long advocated paying Palestinians to leave – or making life so hard for them they have no choice but to do so – a phenomenon they call “voluntary transfer.” Moledet and other Israeli parties that have been part of, or supported the government, have long advocated this approach.

Partition leads to ethnic cleansing

The prediction that Israel would use any kind of Palestinian “state” as a dumping ground for unwanted populations is by no means far-fetched. In a paper in the journal Ethnopolitics last year, I explained how a “two-state solution” would be more likely to lead to further ethnic cleansing of Palestinians than to peace.

More warning signs, in the just announced expulsion of the South Sudanese refugees, are there.

If the IsraHellis ever get their war with Iran, they will use that as an opportunity to complete their ethnic cleansing campaign against Palestinians while the whole worlds attention is focused elsewhere.

It is barely believable how racist the Israeli Jews are. They are so racist that they don’t even notice it among themselves.
I conclude all the antagonism and persecution they are so fond of repeating was definitely brought on them by themselves.
I feel so bitter at the behavior of these folks, the only reason I can think of for this arrogance, conceit, and ill will towards all who are not of their tribe is maybe genetics. Perhaps they are the missing link, I’m open to other explanations, but for now I’m going with the missing link.